Anne Boe’s Keys to Successful Networking

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  1. Clarify your career goals.
  2. Develop long-term win-win relationships.
  3. Nurture your network daily.
  4. Be actively involved in your community.
  5. Meet as many people as you can.
  6. Take your business cards everywhere.
  7. Make friends, even when you don’t need them.
  8. Act like a host, not a guest.
  9. Become an interested person.
  10. Develop your listening skills.
  11. Trust your intuition.
  12. Take people risks.
  13. Master the art of small talk.
  14. Work smarter, not harder.
  15. Value yourself and your life.
  16. Take action daily towards your goals.
  17. Become your own energy manager.
  18. Learn to ask for what you want.
  19. Give thanks for what you have.
  20. Acknowledge your skills and talents.
  21. Say “Thank you. “
  22. Become an inverse paranoid – decide the world is conspiring for you.
  23. Determine your priorities – protect your energy.
  24. Learn to want what you have.
  25. Know that there are more side doors in the world than there are front doors.

[Source: Anne Boe]

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    Anne Boe’s Keys to Successful Networking

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    Clarify your career goals.
    Develop long-term win-win relationships.
    Nurture your network daily.
    Be actively involved in your community.
    Meet as many people as you can.
    Take your business cards everywhere.
    Make friends, even when you don’t ne…

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    We call that government

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    I was reading this post about QANTAS having to stop on the way from Dallas to Brisbane to refuel several times since starting the “nonstop” service. The service is “direct” from DFW to Sydney – which in the strained parlance of the travel industry mean…

    What does "Top-Down" mean?

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    #entarch There seem to be several different ways people use the term “top-down”.
    Management hierarchy. Top-down means traditional command-and-control. See my post on Multiple Styles of EA.
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    A week in Tweets: 21-27 August 2011

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    Creating an IT Strategy – Management by Maxim

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    I have heard that 90% of all businesses do not have a written Business Strategy.  Its in their heads – but as an Enterprise Architect how do you extract it so that you can create a viable IT Strategy?  Often times CxOs don’t have time to have a strategic dialogue.  One way to solve this problem is to employ the “Maxim Process”

    The Maxim Process is described by Broadbent and Kitzis in [Broadbent+05] as a pragmatic way to extract enough information for a good enough IT strategy while not investing more than a day’s workshop with senior management. The CIO will organize a work-­‐ shop with CxOs, which will lead to documenting 2 kinds of so-­‐called Maxims:

    • Business Maxims
    • And as a result IT Maxims

    Maxims are a few concise principles that are used to document the strategic direction of an enterprise. A Maxim workshop will usually not produce more than around 5 business maxims. For each of those, management will derive 4-­‐5 maxims for the IT function that will help to support them.

    Maxim

    A typical Maxim Workshop will be split up into two parts:

    • Part 1: Finding the Business Maxims,
    • Part 2: Deriving the IT Maxims

    An external facilitator should moderate the workshop day and process.

    To give examples imagine an old economy financial service provider like a big insurance company that runs more than one brand name on the market. For such an enterprise you could find the following business maxim:

    • Create synergies in back office and service functions wherever brand identity is not compromised

    IT maxims that could be deducted from such a business strategy could be:

    • Define standard architectures and platforms used by all of the group’s companies in order to leverage synergies and to reduce IT cost
    • Harmonize the IT application systems for the group’s companies wherever there is a business case for this.

    SOURCE: TOGAF9 QuickStart Guide 2009

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    Creating an IT Strategy – Management by Maxim

    by

    I have heard that 90% of all businesses do not have a written Business Strategy.  Its in their heads – but as an Enterprise Architect how do you extract it so that you can create a viable IT Strategy?  Often times CxOs don’t have time to have a strategic dialogue.  One way to solve this problem is to employ the “Maxim Process”

    The Maxim Process is described by Broadbent and Kitzis as a pragmatic way to extract enough information for a good enough IT strategy while not investing more than a day’s workshop with senior management. The CIO will organize a workshop with CxOs, which will lead to documenting 2 kinds of so-­‐called Maxims:

    • Business Maxims
    • And as a result IT Maxims

    Maxims are a few concise principles that are used to document the strategic direction of an enterprise. A Maxim workshop will usually not produce more than around 5 business maxims. For each of those, management will derive 4-­‐5 maxims for the IT function that will help to support them.

    Maxim

    A typical Maxim Workshop will be split up into two parts:

    • Part 1: Finding the Business Maxims,
    • Part 2: Deriving the IT Maxims

    An external facilitator should moderate the workshop day and process.

    To give examples imagine an old economy financial service provider like a big insurance company that runs more than one brand name on the market. For such an enterprise you could find the following business maxim:

    • Create synergies in back office and service functions wherever brand identity is not compromised

    IT maxims that could be deducted from such a business strategy could be:

    • Define standard architectures and platforms used by all of the group’s companies in order to leverage synergies and to reduce IT cost
    • Harmonize the IT application systems for the group’s companies wherever there is a business case for this.

     

    SOURCE: TOGAF9 QuickStart Guide 2009

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